Palmetto State Bank v. English

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice Stabler.

This action was brought to recover $114,082.00 alleged to have been taken from the plaintiff in a bank robbery in Lake City, S. C., in September, 1934. Attachment proceedings, based upon the nonresidence of the defendant, were instituted at the time the suit was begun, and the sheriff of Richland County seized and took into his possession, as defendant’s property, $1,122.45 found in the hands of the superintendent of the State Penitentiary.

A part of the agreed statement as to the facts involved is substantially as follows: It…